Atrocities on both sides of divide

An ethnic Albanian woman, 21, recounts in the OSCE report how she and a cousin, on their way to a wedding, were gang-raped by five Serbian policemen before the bombing in February:

"The [Serb police] driver, the youngest of the group, said to the others to let us go. The old one [police officer] said they wouldn't because 'our people were killed by the KLA today'. We drove for three hours outside Prizren.

"We arrived in an open field near an Orthodox church and a lake. It was still snowy and cold. We had to empty our pockets and my ID was torn. They took our clothes off and each of them raped us. We were raped more than once by each of them. After we were raped we had to enter the lake. The water went up to our chests. It was freezing. They also put our heads under the water for a while. They raped us again. They took my head and forced me to perform oral sex, while I was threatened with a stick. They made jokes against us. Then they played with the barrel of their rifle on our breasts.

"I told them that I would inform the police and they answered that if I did they would kill all the members of my family and burn our house."

Tomislav Basic, 19, a Serb student, tells the Guardian how he found his mother, Dragica Basic, 52, and grandmother, Borka Jovanovic, 78, in Nis hospital after they were critically injured in an ethncially motivated attack last week. His father, Dragoslav Basic, 62, a California-educated engineering professor, was shot dead in the attack:

"My parents and my grandmother, they live in two separate houses in Pristina. My grandmother is very old, they were worried about her safety [she had already been attacked in August] so drove across town to take her to sleep at their place. They tried to take a back route to avoid the crowds [celebrating ethnic Albanians' national day] but they were stopped and the crowd demanded ID. My parents spoke in English but someone found out somehow they were Serbs. They set the car on fire and they had to get out. That's when they started to beat them.

"There were at least a hundred witnesses but nobody has come forward. They shot my father like a dog in the street.

"When I came here a couple of nights ago, I couldn't recognise my mother, I didn't think it could be my mother."